Administrative assistants beware - Administrative Assistant REI Employee Review

2.0
Mar 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work, life and balance is great. Great benefits and the stewards ship the co-op has is amazing.

Cons

Very high turnover for administrative assistants. Heavy work loads. Depending on the department you are in it can be very challenging. A lot of gossip and back stabbing goes on. If you want to be back in Jr. High then you will fit right in.

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Pros

very supportive management and team members.

Cons

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3.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

- Excellent coworkers - REI does a great job of hiring enthusiastic and personable staff - Slightly better pay compared with other retail in the area - Prodeals and discounts - Flexible hours - Good (although rapidly diminishing) healthcare benefits

Cons

- Once a (better) company known for its investment in knowledgeable and friendly staff via extensive training and investment, the company has been slowly slashing away at most of what makes it special since the pandemic - Hours and benefits are worsening, proper employee training is becoming hard to come by - lots of mediocrity and sometimes questionable ethical calls made by management - Punitive disciplinary policies that seem to be designed to create higher turnover (advantageous to them given the gradual pay, benefit and policy changes)

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